James Allen, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell, Tanya Rosenblat, Dean Yang, Hang Yu
{"title":"Correcting Misperceptions about Support for Social Distancing to Combat COVID-19.","authors":"James Allen, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell, Tanya Rosenblat, Dean Yang, Hang Yu","doi":"10.1086/727192","DOIUrl":"10.1086/727192","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Can informing people of high community support for social distancing encourage them to do more of it? We randomly assigned a treatment correcting individuals' underestimates of community support for social distancing. In theory, informing people that more neighbors support social distancing than expected encourages <i>free-riding</i> and <i>lowers</i> the perceived benefits from social distancing. At the same time, the treatment induces people to revise their beliefs about the infectiousness of COVID-19 upwards; this <i>perceived infectiousness</i> effect as well as the <i>norm adherence</i> effect <i>increase</i> the perceived benefits from social distancing. We estimate impacts on social distancing, measured using a combination of self-reports and reports of others. While experts surveyed in advance expected the treatment to increase social distancing, we find that its average effect is close to zero and significantly lower than expert predictions. However, the treatment's effect is heterogeneous, as predicted by theory: it decreases social distancing where current COVID-19 cases are low (where free-riding dominates), but increases it where cases are high (where the perceived-infectiousness effect dominates). These findings highlight that correcting misperceptions may have heterogeneous effects depending on disease prevalence.</p>","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":" ","pages":"221-242"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11658536/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44682692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Do Gender Quotas Change Policy? Evidence from Household Toilet Provision in India","authors":"Sugat Chaturvedi, Sabyasachi Das, Kanika Mahajan","doi":"10.1086/729342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/729342","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":"21 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139383869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How and Why the Gender Pension Gap in Urban China Decreased Between 1988 and 2018","authors":"Björn Gustafsson, Peng Zhan, Hanrui Jia","doi":"10.1086/728696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/728696","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":"120 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135136181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea","authors":"Christopher Hoy, Mathias Sinning, Luke McKenzie","doi":"10.1086/721650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721650","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articleNext article No AccessImproving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New GuineaChristopher Hoy, Mathias Sinning, and Luke McKenzieChristopher Hoy Search for more articles by this author , Mathias Sinning Search for more articles by this author , and Luke McKenzie Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Economic Development and Cultural Change Just Accepted Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/721650 Views: 16Total views on this site HistoryAccepted June 30, 2022 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":"13 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Land Reform and Child Health in the Kyrgyz Republic","authors":"Katrina Kosec, Olga N. Shemyakina","doi":"10.1086/719463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719463","url":null,"abstract":"Can the establishment of private property rights to land improve child health and nutrition outcomes? We exploit a natural experiment in the Kyrgyz Republic following the collapse of socialism, whereby the government rapidly liquidated state and collective farms containing 75% of agricultural land and distributed it to individuals, providing 99-year transferable use rights. We use household surveys collected before, during, and after the privatization reform and spatial variation in its timing to identify its health and nutrition impacts. We find that young children aged 0–5 exposed to land privatization for longer periods of time accumulated significantly greater gains in height- and weight-for-age z-scores, both critical measures of long-term child health and nutrition. Health improvements appear to be driven by increases in consumption of home-produced food rather than increased income from sale of production, likely due to underdeveloped markets. We find minimal impacts on urban-dwelling children affected only indirectly by the reform.","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":"83 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135513776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gendered Barriers to Formal Healthcare Utilization: Modelling Healthcare Demand in a Low-Resource Setting.","authors":"Elisa Cavatorta, Wendy Janssens, Alice Mesnard","doi":"10.1086/728096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/728096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135093624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National Institutions and Self-Insurance","authors":"Raphael Godefroy, Joshua Lewis","doi":"10.1086/728015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/728015","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the relationship between national institutions and farming practices in Africa. The analysis exploits detailed geospatial data to compare farming practices across nearby plots exposed to the same underlying agroclimatic risk but belonging to adjacent countries with different national institutions. We develop a novel approach to measure crop risk without information on local prices, and use this methodology to assess how formal institutions affect decisions to cultivate “safer” versus “riskier” crops. The results show significant cross-border differences in outcomes. In countries with worse national institutions, farmers grew lower risk crops, diversified land across more different crops, and devoted more total land to agriculture. The findings cannot be attributed to cross-border differences in market access. Instead, the patterns are consistent with a setting in which differences in the expropriation of wealth and non-farm income affect how farmers respond to agroclimatic risk.","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135648088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}